Word: narriman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulders fascinated me, and his arms and his powerful wrists covered with dark, virile hair," cooed Farouk's Queen Narriman, in world-syndicated memoirs palmed off as her own. "And I found love such as I would never have dared to hope for." For his part, wrote Farouk, who seemed to have an equally corny ghostwriter, "Life without her would be lonely indeed . . . Narriman was the first human being . . . who really began . . . to understand the man behind the panoply of royalty...
Ever since Naguib's coup of last July stripped 33-year-old King Farouk of his crown, Narriman has had to contemplate Farouk's powerful, hairy wrists in exile-first on Capri, finally in a 30-room villa staffed by eight servants in the Alban Hills outside Rome. Bereft of palaces, they pursued pleasures: days at the races, nights at the opera, wee hours at Rome's tame little nightclubs. Each had a Mercedes-Benz, green for him, cherry red for her. Sometimes they appeared separately, 19-year-old Narriman with a coterie of envious, twittering, teen...
Tired of It All. Often Narriman sat for hours with her teetotaling husband at a nightclub without exchanging a word, while he accompanied the orchestra by banging the silverware, or led the musicians with a spoon. He gambled heavily. His tublike figure became familiar on the Via Veneto, puffing down to newsstands to fuel up on comic books and spicy magazines...
Former Queen Narriman, 18, wife of exiled King Farouk of Egypt, had no sooner left him to mind the baby on the Isle of Capri, than reporters began gossiping about a divorce. A Cairo newspaper reported that Narriman's family were trying to find a way for the Queen and her infant son King Fuad II to return to Egypt to give encouragement to the monarchists. In Lausanne, Switzerland, where Narriman had gone with her mother for some medical treatment, the Queen was said to have consulted lawyers about a divorce. At week's end, as Narriman returned...
...same at Montazah, Farouk's summer home. Beside the King's bed were six telephones, two radios and his field marshal's uniform. In Queen Narriman's boudoir lay her latest reading matter: Lady Chatterley's Lover and Arabian Nights in French. In Her Majesty's bathroom still hung her dainty white bathrobe, left behind in the rush...